Random Articles

• A fun game I play with Google A fun game I play with Google….when ever GOOG remembers who I am, I sign out. Back story: Steve Borsch - Google Web History, Rex Hammock - Google now has my attention.
• Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in A decade ago, one of the very first places I found that offering free websites gave everyone access to the same images directory. You could upload your own images, but then everyone else could use them as well. Goofy, questionable, but free. I’ve been hosting with Joyent for more than 3 years, purchased 3 different ‘lifetime’
• Why Google Analytics Isn’t Useful After a couple months of being completely without site analytics, I thought I’d try out Google Analytics. Things it doesn’t measure; RSS feeds, downloads, downloads from RSS feeds. Considering 95% of what I’m tracking is accessible via an RSS feed (like podcasts). Google isn’t helping me. The previous iteration of their tool - Urchin, was
• Google Checkout First Impression Podcast I walked through Google Checkout this morning and recorded my initial reaction as a podcast (wherein I curse a little). Marshall Kirkpatrick at Techcrunch brings up the same issues.
• Measure Map = Google Analytics v2.0? I sure hope so. The current offering (Urchin assimilated) isn’t that useful. “Bringing Measure Map to Google is an exciting validation of the user experience work I’ve been doing with my partners at Adaptive Path for years. - Jeffrey Veen” Congrats to Veen, Congrats to Google. To PeterMe and everyone at Adaptive Path, I’m sorry for your